Ursula Edelmann

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Ursula Edelmann , née Ursula Pomplitz (born March 30, 1926 in Berlin ) is a German photographer .

Life

Ursula Edelmann was born as Ursula Pomplitz in Berlin in 1926. She is the daughter of the lawyer Kurt Pomplitz (1893–1946) and Ella Pomplitz, née Poggendorff (1898–1993). In 1960 she married the art historian and librarian Gottfried Edelmann. Their son is the journalist and design critic Klaus Thomas Edelmann .

Career and work

After the end of the war, Ursula Pomplitz began an apprenticeship with the photographer Max Baur in Potsdam. She has lived as a photographer in Frankfurt am Main since 1949, and has been a freelancer almost from the start. She documented the war-torn Frankfurt and accompanied the reconstruction of the city as a photographic chronicler. After initially taking pictures without a commission, from 1955 she photographed the current construction projects in the city on behalf of the municipal building department, from the housing program to buildings for supply such as the wholesale market hall, slaughterhouse, fire brigade and schools and leisure facilities. As early as 1954 Ursula Pomplitz had started historical, z. Photographing buildings that were partly destroyed in the war, such as the completely destroyed Dominican monastery . There she got to know Gottfried Edelmann, who supervised the excavation work there. In 1960 she married him and took the surname Edelmann.

Since the sixties she has mainly photographed paintings, drawings and sculptures for Frankfurt museums, especially for the Städelsche Kunstinstitut , the Liebieghaus and the Goethe-Haus . Her precise view of art is valued - from antiquity to the old masters to modern times. It captures the works of art as faithfully as possible in a photographic image. Her recordings have appeared in numerous art books, magazines and newspapers, on posters and postcards.

From December 2018 to July 2019, the Städel Museum showed its series of object photographs showing mixing machines from the Petzhold machine factory in Frankfurt-Fechenheim in the context of paintings from the “New Objectivity”. The photos were purchased for the Städel in 2018.

A group of works that is still little known today includes her photographs of historical buildings, sculptures and archaeological sites in France, Spain and Italy, most of which were made between the 1960s and 1980s. At the beginning of the 2000s, Ursula Edelmann was commissioned by the building supervision of the city of Frankfurt to document new buildings.

Quote

“ Your works are not snapshots or fleeting memories of a moment. These are pictures that appear to be arranged in their calm and clarity, but are actually testimony to the careful search for the best perspective and the highest level of technical precision. These images differ significantly from journalistic photographs. (...) Some of the images that try to capture reality as precisely and appropriately as possible have themselves become works of art. "

- Dieter Bartetzko

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002: "Ursula Edelmann Photographs", Institute for Urban History, Carmelite Monastery, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2002/03: "Ursula Edelmann Frankfurt am Main", Galerie Michael Neff Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2005: Photographs from a small city, Kroch-Haus exhibition center, Leipzig;
  • 2009: Max Baur and Ursula Edelmann; Photographs 1925–2008, Braubachfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2012: Views between the cathedral and the Römer, Braubachfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2013: The Henninger Tower 1961–2013, photography, Braubachfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2014: The city of the 1950s and 1960s - Frankfurt under construction after the Second World War, Kassel Architecture Center
  • 2015: Architectural photography, 1950 Frankfurt 1959, Ursula Edelmann / Georg Christian Dörr, Braubachfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2015: stairs, photographs, Kunstraum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2016: Potsdam - Ursula Edelmann, photography - Stefan Pietryga, installation, Kunstraum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main;
  • 2018: Ursula Edelmann - Frankfurt photographs, Stadtkultur Museum Bensheim, Bensheim;
  • 2020: The inspiration - two looks | Ursula Edelmann & Stefan Pietryga - photography and sculpture, Kunstraum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main;

bibliography

  • Evelyn Hils-Brockhoff, Martina Mettner (ed.): Ursula Edelmann photographs. Architecture and art in Frankfurt from 1950 until today. University printing house H. Schmidt, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-935647-10-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on life and career will follow Martina Mettner: Black and white with a special touch. In: Evelyn Hils-Brockhoff, Martina Mettner (ed.): Ursula Edelmann photographs. Mainz 2002, pp. 9–16 with further biographical references.
  2. ↑ cf. Ursula Edelmann: Max Baur as a teacher. In: Stephan Steins (Ed.): Max Baur - in the spirit of the Bauhaus: Photographs 1925–1960. Edition Stemmle, Zurich 2001, pp. 132-134.
  3. ↑ Christoph Schütte: Mistletoe and empty glass. In: FAZ. February 26th, 2009 (about the double exhibition Baur / Edelmann 2009)
  4. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: In the perspective of objectivity. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 26, 2002, p. 33.
  5. ↑ home.uni-leipzig.de
personal data
SURNAME Nobleman, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pomplitz, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin